#j. alden weir

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J. Alden Weir - Profile Portrait of a Woman Sewing (ca. 1887-93)

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J. Alden Weir (American) • Still life • 1902-1905

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J. Alden Weir (American,1852-1919)

Children Burying a Bird, 1878

oil on canvas

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‘The Open Book’ by J. Alden Weir, c. 1891.

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J. Alden Weir

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art history album moodboard – melodrama by lorde

Paris at Night: Rue de Venise – Konstantin Alexeyevich Korovin // Bülowstrasse Station – Lesser Ury // At the Moulin Rouge – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec // The Sick Girl – Michael Peter Ancher // Café Terrace at Night – Vincent van Gogh // A Nocturnal View of the Grand Canal – unknown artist // Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette – Pierre-Auguste Renoir // Market Square of Warsaw by Night – Józef Pankiewicz // Place de l’Opéra in Paris – Ludwik de Laveaux // Masquerade Ball – Charles Hermans // À la Toilette – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec // The Blue Kitchen – Ludvig Karsten // A Reader – Matej Sternen // Nocturne: Queensboro Bridge – J. Alden Weir // Nighthawks – Edward Hopper

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1. Children burying a bird, by J. Alden Weir, 1878

2. The Burial of the Bird, lithograph by Currier and Ives ca. 1865

3. The Last Kiss, by Mary Ellen Edwards, 1867

4. Burial of a Bird, attributed to Francis Wheatley, ca. 1800

5. The Burial, Bamforth & Co, 1900s

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J. Alden Weir

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J. Alden Weir - The Factory Village (1897)

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J. ALDEN WEIR

American, 1852-1919

"Summer In Connecticut - The Old Barn At Branchville", Ca. 1890s

oil on canvas

signed lower left "J. Alden Weir"

Shannon’s

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Willard Leroy Metcalf (USA, 1858-1925), "May Night" (1906)

Oil on canvas, 99.5 × 91.7 cm

Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art (Corcoran Collection)

[Painting of the Florence Griswold Museum (House) in Old Lyme, Connecticut]

"Completed during his second of three summers at the burgeoning artists' colony in picturesque Old Lyme, Connecticut, May Night is Willard Metcalf's homage to the creative ferment he experienced there and to its host, Florence Griswold. The focus of this moonlit nocturne is the late-Georgian-style home of Miss Florence, as she was known, the last surviving member of a prominent local shipbuilding family. Forced to take in boarders to survive financially, Miss Florence welcomed several landscape painters to her home, including Childe Hassam.

Metcalf studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and later in Paris at the Académie Julian, where he frequented French artist colonies, including Giverny where he visited Claude Monet. There, Metcalf's exposure to French Impressionism and the development of his interests in botany and ornithology predisposed him to accept invitations from Miss Florence and his old friend Hassam to visit Old Lyme. Apparently thrilled with the natural beauty, artistic camaraderie, and opportunities to paint outdoors, Metcalf enjoyed a productive first summer in Old Lyme in 1905. He likely conceived May Night before returning the following May, and the ambitious canvas apparently occupied him through the following autumn. His work was aided by inclement weather early that summer; as Hassam wrote to his fellow painter J. Alden Weir, "Metty [Metcalf] is working hard at a moonlight. We are all doing moonlights. The weather has been so bad that we have been forced to it."

May Night shows an ethereally dressed figure that surely represents Miss Florence, for whom Metcalf painted the canvas, crossing the shadow-strewn lawn toward a seated companion. Set beneath a canopy of stars, lush trees frame the scene; the triangular shapes of the dogwood tree, and the white horse-chestnut blossoms echo those of the women's pale gowns. Metcalf enhanced his painted tribute to his host in several ways. He improved on the somewhat dilapidated appearance of the mansion and grounds and rendered the house as otherworldly and nearly templelike, perhaps in reference to its nickname, Holy House. An off-center perspective and the exaggerated height of the Ionic columns emphasize the home's portico (the porch at the entrance), the most classical feature of the house. The only reminder of modern life Metcalf chose to include is the glowing yellow light seen in the doorway and the windows on the left, suggesting lamplight.

Miss Florence was thrilled with Metcalf's painting, saying it "was the best thing he had ever done." When the artist offered her May Night in exchange for room and board, however, she refused to accept it, instead encouraging him to exhibit the work in New York, where it went on to receive critical acclaim. Metcalf's work also inspired other American artists to paint moonlight views, which became something of a trademark in Old Lyme."

(text by the National Gallery of Art)

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Five Favorite Birthdays

Lewis Black; comedian (1948)

Molly Ivins; writer (1944)

Fred MacMurray; actor (1908)

John Swigert Jr.; astronaut (1931)

Ted Williams; Boston Red Sox LF (1918)

Famous Birthdays

Elizabeth Ashley; actor (1939)

Geoffrey Beene; fashion designer (1927)

Joan Blondell; actor (1909)

Shirley Booth; actor (1898)

Timothy Bottoms; actor (1951)

Warren Buffett; gazillionaire (1930)

Michael Chiklis; actor (1963)

Robert Crumb; cartoonist (1943)

Jacques-Louis David; French artist (1748)

Agoston Haraszthy de Mokcsa; vineyard importer (1812)

Cameron Diaz; actor (1972)

John Gunther; writer (1901)

Jean-Claude Killy; French skier (1943)

Peggy Lipton; actor (1947)

Huey Long; politician (1893)

Raymond Massey; actor (1896)

Tug McGraw; NY Mets/Philadelphia Phillies P (1944)

John Phillips; singer, songwriter (1935)

Andy Roddick; tennis player (1982)

Ernest Lord Rutherford; New Zealand physicist (1871)

Theodor Svedberg; Swedish chemist (1884)

Frederique van der Wal (1967)

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff; Dutch physicist (1852)

J. Alden Weir; artist (1852)

Kitty Wells; country singer (1919)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; English writer (1797)

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J. Alden Weir "The Black Hat"

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A Gentlewoman. J. Alden Weir. c. 1906 C.E. Oil on canvas.